America’s Catholic bishops have made some serious missteps in the past — from mishandling and covering up sexual abuse and homosexual predation in seminaries and rectories to distorting the Catholic Church’s teachings on immigration and national sovereignty. Unfortunately, the bishops are showing no signs of stopping. Just days after a transgender-identified lunatic shot and killed children attending Mass at a Catholic school in Minneapolis and an Antifa-aligned crackpot assassinated conservative Christian icon Charlie Kirk, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) decided to make its ad hoc “anti-racism” committee a permanent fixture.
I can’t remember if I’ve ever heard a Catholic priest, bishop, or cardinal accused of being racist.
In 2017, then-president of the USCCB Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston established a temporary “Committee Against Racism,” shortly after the controversial “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. The first chairman of the committee was Jesuit Bishop George V. Murry, who vocally supported altering the Church’s teachings on divorce and remarriage and allowing women to serve as deacons.
USCCB president Archbishop Timothy Broglio of the Military Archdiocese said in a statement, “As we call for a genuine conversion of heart that will compel change at both individual and institutional levels, I invite all Catholics to join us as we carry forward this work to recognize and uphold the inherent dignity of every person made in the image and likeness of God.” The Subcommittee for the Promotion of Racial Justice and Reconciliation’s current chairman, Bishop Joseph Perry of the Archdiocese of Chicago, shared his “gratitude” for the committee being made permanent “so that the important work of evangelization of the faithful and the community at large may continue in the spirit of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.”
Despite the creation of a permanent Subcommittee for the Promotion of Racial Justice and Reconciliation, the USCCB already has a Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, which “seeks to teach about and to witness to the intrinsic dignity of the human person as an antidote to the grave sin of racism” and “explores and implements concrete solutions to address the racism that still pervades our society and our Church today.” So why is another anti-racism committee necessary?
The healing words of Christ and the truths and sacraments safeguarded by the Catholic Church are desperately needed in the U.S. right now. Political violence and assassination are increasingly becoming commonplace, the grip of the demonic on our godless society is becoming stronger, and widespread evils such as pornography, abortion, and the dissolution of the family are still very much present. Yet the USCCB wants to form a committee to fight “racism.”
I can’t remember if I’ve ever heard a Catholic priest, bishop, or cardinal accused of being racist. I’ve heard many instances of priests and bishops being accused of sexual abuse, of homosexual activity, or of its cover-up, but not racism. I’ve witnessed myself numerous instances of priests and bishops diluting, misinterpreting, misrepresenting, or outright ignoring or contradicting the clear teachings of Christ and the teachings of the Catholic Church.
In 2021, shortly after self-described Catholic Joe Biden ascended to the presidency, the USCCB gathered its members to discuss publicly barring Biden and other pro-abortion politicians masquerading as Catholics from receiving Holy Communion, which the Catholic Church teaches is the very Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Christ Himself. Receiving Holy Communion while in a state of grave sin — and yes, voting to enable and encourage the slaughter of countless unborn children is a grave sin — is a means of desecrating the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Christ.
Yet even with such clear commands from the Church, even with such high stakes, America’s bishops, heirs, and successors of the Apostles, just could not bring themselves to tell a Catholic soul entrusted to their care, “You cannot do this, you cannot endanger your soul so blithely, you cannot hurt the innocent unborn, you cannot desecrate the Body of Our Lord and Savior.” No, instead, the bishops decided that the Church in America needed a “Eucharistic Revival.” That’s certainly true; a revival of love and respect for, of fervent devotion to the Eucharist is sorely needed, but perhaps it ought not be led by the men who could not even bring themselves to write a strongly-worded letter in defense of the Eucharist.
Before an Antifa foot-soldier shot him in the throat, Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk would travel the nation visiting college campuses and, in addition to debating and discussing politics, share the Gospel. Tens of thousands of young men and women were invited and encouraged to know, love, and follow Christ better and more closely because of Charlie Kirk’s passionate witness to Christ’s love. I wonder, how is a “committee against racism” going to continue that good work? What “evangelization of the faithful and the community at large,” as Bishop Perry put it, will the USCCB’s second anti-racism committee achieve? Will this committee travel around college and university campuses and introduce students to the Gospel?
Bishops are successors to the Apostles, they are tasked with serving as shepherds. Wolves are devouring the flock — what else can we call it when a transgender-identified man imagines himself as a demon every time he sees his reflection in the mirror and proceeds to gun down children praying at Mass? Wolves are devouring the flock. Where are our shepherds? Where are our spiritual fathers? Have they abandoned their sons and daughters? When Antifa snipers come for you and me for preaching the Gospel, when transgender terrorists try to take our lives for daring to go to Mass, where will our shepherds be? Perhaps they’ll be forming a third anti-racism committee.
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